4.9 Divergence in Estimates of Forest Area

Year	Forest Cover as per FSI	Forest Area as per LUS by DESMOA
1	2	3
1987	64.08	66.87
1989	63.88	66.94
1991	63.94	67.80
1993	63.94	67.98
1995	63.89	68.60
1997	63.34	68.75

Notes: FSI: Forest Survey Of India, DESMOA: Directorate of Economic and Statistics, LUS: Land Use Statistics
Source: "State of Forest eport (1999)", FSI; "Agricultural Statistics at a glance", DESMOA

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